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Miles Davis Sketches Of Spain 50th Anniversary (Legacy Edition) 2-disc CD

Miles Davis Sketches Of Spain 50th Anniversary (Legacy Edition) 2-disc CD

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Legacy continues its Miles campaign with Sketches of Spain (LegacyEdition) celebrating the 50th anniversary of the trumpeters extraordinary collaborationwith Gil Evans. When it was released in 1960, it was so different that manycritics simply didnt know what to make of it. When confronted with the question isit jazz? Miles answered, Its music, and I like it. The finished results were ultimatelyhailed as a masterpiece, creating a hypnotic possessed effect, and brought toa fitting climax the period of intense creativity that had begun in 1954.

Sketches of Spain (Legacy Edition) includes on 2 CDs what isunanimously regarded as powerful and lasting music, music that representsa compelling blend of the deep song of flamenco and the cry of the blues.This set includes:

  • Over two hours of music. The original album along with rehearsal andalternate takes previously heard only on the 1996 set Miles Davis &Gil Evans: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings, plus the only pieceever performed live by Miles with Gil Concierto de Aranjuez performed atCarnegie Hall on May 19, 1961.

  • Bonus digital booklet with Rare photos, session records with TeoMaceros producer notes and clippings including the 1960 HiFi/Stereo Review article by Nat Hentoff describing the Nov. 15, 1959 recordingsession.

  • New liner notes for this 2009 edition are written by composer/academicianGunther Schuller, whose hundreds of accomplishments in jazz include playingfrench horn for Miles on the 1949-50 Birth Of The Cool sessions, and recordingwith Miles and Gil on the 1958 masterpiece, Porgy and Bess.
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